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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Norwood come in and order Bert to do?
(a) Sit down.
(b) Move out.
(c) Leave out the back door.
(d) Go to his room.

2. What does Sallie want to become?
(a) A maid.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A business woman.
(d) A housewife.

3. Of what does Cora stop and remind the Colonel?
(a) Bert is their son.
(b) Bert is strong.
(c) Bert is a man.
(d) The Colonel could go to jail.

4. What has Robert done without permission?
(a) Taken the car into town.
(b) Stayed out late.
(c) Left home.
(d) Taken a new job.

5. What do Cora and Bert begin to do, after he tells her this news?
(a) They begin to understand one another.
(b) They begin to argue again.
(c) They hug.
(d) They begin to cry.

6. What do Cora and William worry about Bert's place in society?
(a) He knows his place.
(b) He cannot find his place.
(c) He has no place.
(d) He will never know his place.

7. Why does Sam ask if it would be acceptable to take Sallie's luggage out the front door to the car?
(a) The back steps are difficult to maneuver.
(b) The front door is closer to the car.
(c) The back door is being painted.
(d) Sallie is the Colonel's daughter.

8. What does Bert believe he should not have to do?
(a) Leave his home.
(b) Stand up to Norwood.
(c) Talk with Norwood.
(d) Work out in the fields like the other field hands.

9. What does Bert once accidentally do when he is a young boy?
(a) Refer to Norwood as "papa" in front of the Colonel's rich white friends.
(b) Hug Norwood in front of his rich white friends.
(c) Get lost in the fields.
(d) Tell Norwood he does not like him in front of his rich white friends.

10. What are these men doing as they visit?
(a) Singing.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Smoking.

11. How does Bert feel about this entire situation?
(a) Worried.
(b) Indignant.
(c) Scared.
(d) Sad.

12. What else do the two men discuss?
(a) Politics.
(b) The weather.
(c) Cora.
(d) Norwood's children.

13. As the action opens, what are Norwood and Cora discussing?
(a) The plans for the next school year.
(b) The work that needs to be completed in the office.
(c) The arrival of Cora's daughter Sallie from school.
(d) The imminent departure of Cora's daughter Sallie for school.

14. What does Robert do as the act ends?
(a) Hugs the Colonel.
(b) Walks proudly out the front door.
(c) Runs out the back door.
(d) Goes to his room.

15. What do Cora and William discuss, regarding Bert?
(a) How smart he is.
(b) How he looks like his father.
(c) His headstrong ways.
(d) How he should move back north.

Short Answer Questions

1. When and where does the play begin?

2. What do Cora and William try to explain to Bert?

3. After Higgins and Norwood leave, who enters again?

4. What does the guest warn the Colonel about Bert, if he does indeed get arrested for his behavior?

5. What happens as Cora and William worry about Bert's place in society?

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